The Obamas have resigned from Trinity United Church. There’s a list of reactions here. Peter Wehner:
Barack Obama’s resignation from Trinity United Church of Christ over, in part, “a cultural and a stylistic gap” raises additional doubts about him. The obvious question is what “cultural and stylistic gap” exists now that hasn’t existed during [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Obama’s Exodus
Posted in Politics, Religion, tagged Obama on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Socialist Bumper Stickers
Posted in Politics, tagged Obama on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I see I’m not the only one creeped out by some Obama signs and bumper stickers. I hadn’t made the Che connection, but the poster style screams New Left socialist realism.
That reminds me: Have I mentioned the trilingual pun I heard back in tenth grade?
The New Left is both sinister and gauche.
I heard it [...]
Feline Friday: Jewel
Posted in Cats on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Back in February, I wrote about Jackie, who was born in our house in 1995 after a graduate student found a pregnant stray cat at her apartment complex. This is her sister Jewel. Always a bit of a recluse, Jewel suffered some sort of trauma while we were on vacation a few years [...]
“Change You’ll Have to Pay For”
Posted in Politics, economics, tagged change, free trade on May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Megan McArdle comments on that Wall Street Journal title and the accompanying article. It’s a phrase that McCain ought to be preparing for use in a debate. It’s probably better than the one I thought of: “Change—Out of YOUR Pocket!”
Obama, Soros, ACORN…
Posted in Politics, tagged ACORN, Obama, Soros on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stanley Kurtz and Charles Johnson find some connections and explore their significance. Not to put too fine a pun on it, ACORN really is nutty, and Obama’s intimate connection with it deserves much more scrutiny than it’s been getting. Johnson also finds a Soros-McClellan connection. I think we’re starting to learn whose [...]
Remember Constantinople
Posted in History, Religion, tagged Constantinople, Islam on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Five hundred fifty five years ago today, Constantinople fell to the invading Muslim armies, which would eventually overrun most of Eastern Europe and, in 1529, 1566, and 1683, threaten Vienna and the rest of Europe. My own ancestors (on my father’s side) were already under Muslim domination, where they would remain for almost five [...]
Mankiw on Free Trade
Posted in economics, tagged free trade on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Greg Mankiw defends free trade against Robert Driskill’s attack. I’d add one more argument. Driskill claims that the benefits of free trade go to the few, the costs go to the many, and there’s no redistribution of the benefits to compensate them. Not only is there redistribution by way of the progressive [...]
News from the Church of England
Posted in Religion, tagged Britain, Christianity, Islam, Reason on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Maybe the Archbishop of Canterbury was right. The Church of England sees an Islamic future—and sees the government as the chief cause.
If recent reports of trends in religious observance prove to be correct, then in some 30 years the mosque will be able to claim that, religiously speaking, the UK is an Islamic nation, [...]
Steyn in Vancouver—One Time Only!
Posted in Politics, Religion, liberty, rights, tagged diversity, fascism, Islam, multiculturalism on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wretchard quotes Mark Steyn, speaking in Vancouver before he goes on trial:
What we’re up against is not primarily defined by what’s going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those are still essentially military campaigns and we’re good at those. … it might be truer to say that this is a Cold Civil War – by which [...]
John Hinderaker compiles the record of coordinated terror attacks against the United States and Americans abroad, conclusing that we are indeed safer now than we used to be.
On the stump, Barack Obama usually concludes his comments on Iraq by saying, “and it hasn’t made us safer.” It is an article of faith on the left [...]
